Squares Root For -1's

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they got me in the dark... hooked...when just a kid... surrounded...by others...stories and walls... of shelves...bending under the weight of... so many unfamiliar...voices awaiting their turn to... express...thoughts in some other form such as... that of a kid...with a library card key to... enter an...imaginative world of one's own choosing... that it...no longer be an absent reality but... that of some...book-square rooting self in a garden that till then... relatively speaking was...minus one stan's sand

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Robert Pettit

Date: 1/28/2021 12:32:00 PM

That is why we have imaginary numbers. Any absolute value number will have a positive square. Great imaginative write.

Sand Blown
Date: 1/28/2021 3:34:00 PM

thank you robert....mathematics and philosophy are as poetry and meaning below the rhyme.....especially the sqrt (-1)..... stan sand

Bj Legros Kelley

Date: 1/28/2021 12:19:00 PM

Wow. Powerful. Great write. I love "...surrounded...by others...stories and walls..." I loved my library card too. It was like having a ticket to silent performances carefully directed by the books authors, the stage set within the reader's mind. I really enjoyed reading your poem.

Sand Blown
Date: 1/28/2021 3:29:00 PM

...thatnk you bj, the library was a retreat from reality when a kid.....buying a 'downloaded book' is not for me.....paper.... please.....i pencil in....margins! : ) stan sand